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Re: Hoiberg's keys to beating Texas Tech

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

Guards need to box out. It will be interesting to see whether ISU fixes that problem or TT exploits it...

Yep. Fred explicitly stated in his Monday conference that guards not getting a body on someone was one of the issues with rebounding in the WVU and TCU games. He also said there were some unlucky bounces in the TCU game, which although true, you usually do not hear the coach saying that.

Re: Hoiberg's keys to beating Texas Tech

Tech is much better offensively than TCU (234 vs 329), but still not good.

They are a much worse defensive team (276 vs 116). And they play at a pace similar to us, rather than glacially like TCU.

So this game should be up in the 70's, and we shouldn't have any problem scoring the ball. I predict that we make Tech look like a good offensive team for a while, then get stingy on defense late in the game and pull away to a 82-67 win.

Re: Hoiberg's keys to beating Texas Tech

Tech is much better offensively than TCU (234 vs 329), but still not good.

They are a much worse defensive team (276 vs 116). And they play at a pace similar to us, rather than glacially like TCU.

So this game should be up in the 70's, and we shouldn't have any problem scoring the ball. I predict that we make Tech look like a good offensive team for a while, then get stingy on defense late in the game and pull away to a 82-67 win.

I was thinking along these lines as well. I think we'll probably come out slow, maybe only be up by a few at half, then explode to beat them by about twenty.

Re: Hoiberg's keys to beating Texas Tech

Tech is much better offensively than TCU (234 vs 329), but still not good.

They are a much worse defensive team (276 vs 116). And they play at a pace similar to us, rather than glacially like TCU.

So this game should be up in the 70's, and we shouldn't have any problem scoring the ball. I predict that we make Tech look like a good offensive team for a while, then get stingy on defense late in the game and pull away to a 82-67 win.

There is no room for your so-called "facts" here.

I think you are right. Their style of play definitely plays into the Cyclones' hands.

"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldn’t get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr

Re: Hoiberg's keys to beating Texas Tech

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

Guards need to box out. It will be interesting to see whether ISU fixes that problem or TT exploits it...

Seems to be a bigger problem than just the guards. Everyone seems to be playing hard on offense and defense, but relying on athleticism to get some rebounds we might not get otherwise, but not focusing enough on rebounding position. Lots of times, we are just clearing out and going down court after our shots. Or, we are letting their bigs get inside position for easy offensive rebounds and put-back shots. I haven't thought the guards not boxing out was much worse of a problem than our bigs not boxing out.

We are doing okay anyway, but it is one of those areas where improvement could take us to the next level. We are going to need to be a much better rebounding team.

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